Gurobi Optimizer Features & Benefits

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An Optimization Solver Reimagined

The Gurobi Optimizer was designed from the ground up to be the fastest, most powerful solver available for your LP, QP, QCP, and MIP (MILP, MIQP, and MIQCP) problems. In particular:

Our code was built to fully exploit parallelism. It's not a sequential code that was parallelized, but a fundamentally parallel code that you can also choose to run sequentially

Our MIP cutting plane routines are second to none. Not only do we have cutting-edge versions of all the standard cutting planes, but we’ve also gone beyond that to develop new classes of cuts available only in Gurobi

Our advanced MIP heuristics for quickly finding feasible solutions often produce good quality solutions where other solvers fall flat, leading to some of our biggest wins vs. the competition

Our barrier algorithms fully exploit the features of the latest computer architectures

Our broad range of APIs are designed to be lightweight, modern and intuitive, so as to minimize your learning curve while maximizing your productivity

A Single-minded Focus on Providing the Best Optimization-related Tools Possible

The Gurobi Optimizer was state-of-the-art when it was first introduced, and since then we have maintained that status by dramatically pushing the limits on both solver performance and on features designed to help you and your team be successful with optimization.

On the performance front, Gurobi's solvers consistently deliver outstanding performance across a full range of problems, with performance improving as your problems get harder. While benchmark results can fluctuate over time as competitors introduce new versions, Gurobi typically leads solver results across all tests over time and has a history of delivering significant performance improvements over time. Over just the past seven years Gurobi has improved performance by 6X for LP problems and 43X for MIP problems.

On the features front, we have added a range of capabilities either not available from any other commercial solver provider or delivered at an industry-leading level. Some examples include:

A Python API that provides the advantages of both a modeling language and a programming language

Support for models with multiple, competing objectives, to better address this common modeling scenario

The ability to express common modeling constructs like min or max or if/then at a higher level, making such models easier to build and maintain

Powerful and flexible client-server and cloud capabilities to help you develop and deploy where and how you want to any number of users on a broad range of platforms.

Below is a short summary of Gurobi's features and benefits. For further information on Gurobi and how it can meet your specific needs, we invite you to contact us. We're happy to discuss how Gurobi can help you succeed in applying optimization to your applications.

General Features

Detail

Benefit for You

Outstanding solve times

Gurobi has a history of leading public benchmarks and making continual improvements across a range of problem types

Add complexity to your model to better represent the real world, and still solve your model within the available time.

Support for all common problem types

Linear Programming (LP)

Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP)

Quadratic Programming (QP)

Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP)

Quadratically Constrained Programming (QCP)

Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Programming (MIQCP)

Model your problem the way that works best for you.

Extremely robust code

Robustness has several components: numerical stability, correctness of results, scalability with problem size and difficulty, and robustness of solve times over a range of model instances.

Gurobi has a proven track record on all of these components

Gurobi is tested thoroughly for numerical stability and correctness using an internal library of over 10000 models from industry and academia.

Gurobi is tuned to optimize performance over a wide range of instances

Have confidence in your results.

Full range of programming and modeling language support

Object-oriented interfaces for C++, Java, .NET, and Python

Matrix-oriented interfaces for C, MATLAB, and R

Consistent intuitive design across all programming interfaces

Interfaces are lightweight, meaning that they are faster and use less memory

Links to standard modeling languages: AMPL, GAMS, AIMMS, and MPL

Links to Excel through Frontline Solvers

Maximize your productivity by working in the language you are most comfortable with.

Examples of additional features to ease the modeling process

Support for multiple objectives with flexibility in how they are prioritized

General constraints such as MIN/MAX, ABS, AND/OR, and indicator constraints help avoid having to turn commonly occurring constraints in linear constraints